Foreword

The social services sector in Victoria is a multi billion dollar sector providing a range of services with the common focus of reducing poverty and disadvantage experienced by Victorians. The sector employs thousands of Victorians, making a substantial contribution to the state economy. In addition to this, there are a large number of charities and not-for-profit organisations that operate within the social services sector in Victoria, often deriving funding from very different sources than that of their privately-run counterparts.

As the social services sector in Victoria is so large and complex, this report dives into the data to better understand its composition and characteristics. The below report and data visualisations make use of data provided by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) to examine the impact of charities and not-for-profit organisations in the social services sector in Victoria. This report also looks at changes in the nature of the charities and not-for-profits in the social services sector between 2016 and 2017.

Sector Size and Composition

Charities operating in the social services sector comprise more than one out of every five charities operating in Victoria. In 2016 this was 1,062 charities, which decreased slighty in 2017 to 1,022 (22.8% and 22.0% of total charities, respectively).

In 2016, the largest number of charities were working in the Social Services sector with Other Education recording the second-most number of charities at 1,062. These figures changed in 2017, with Other Education recording the greatest number of charities at 1,136 while Social Services decreased slightly at 1,022 charities.

Yearly Totals

Social Services and all other Sectors

Breakdown per Main Activity

Charity Sizes per Main Activity

2016

2017

Change in Social Services Charity Sizes

Sector Funding Sources

Total Funding by Year

Total Revenue Amount

Proportion of Funding by Charity Size

Funding Sources by Main Activity

Workforce Composition

Employees

No. of staff by Staff type

Other Sectors

Social Services

From 2016 to 2017, the dominant staff type was changed from part-time to full-time. The number of casual staff was the smallest in both year of 2016 and year of 2017 compared with other staff types. A slight decreasing by 4.7% in numbers of casual employees was seen in the period of 2016 to 2017 , from 36,868 to 36,551. There were changes in the number of part-time employees and the number of full-time employees as well. The number of part-time employees was decreased from 67,131 to 63,140 (10.4% drop) and the number of full-time employees was increased from 46,516 to 84,849 (15.1% increase).

No. of staff by organization type

Social Services

Other Sectors

Social services charities had the largest number of all-type employees as well as full-time and casual type employees in 2016 but in 2017, the largest number of staffs were in aged care charities. The number of staffs in social services charities accounted for 23.5% of total number of charity staffs in 2016 and was decreased to 23.4% in 2017. On the contrary, total numbers of staffs in aged care activities organizations were increased from 20.2% to 24.6%. Other health service delivery sector had the second largest number of employees and aged care activities had the third largest number of employees, which were 32,574 and 30,418 respectively in 2016. Things changed in 2017 while social services sectors and other education sectors were in the second and third place regarding to numbers of staffs. Income support and maintenance and civic and advocacy activities are seen having the smallest proportions of staffs.

Volunteers

No. of staff by organization size

2016

2017

No. of volunteers by organization type

Civic and advocacy activites had the most volunteers in 2016 but had a huge drop from 77403 to 620 in 2017. In 2017, other education sectors got the highest numbers of volunteers. Social services were in the second place in both years and had a slightly decreasing from 75,605 to 70,289 people.

Funding Sources

income source by its type

2016

2017

The source of income for charities are mainly government grants which accounted for 49.4% in 2016 and 73.5% in 2017. Other revenue was decreased from 39% to 11.8% whereas proportions of donation and bequests were increased from 9% to 11.9%. Other income was fluctuated between 2.6% to 2.8%.

source income of different organazations

2016

2017

Income source by organization size

##Deficit budget

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